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David HockneyRed Square and the Forbidden City /// Contemporary Lithograph David Hockney Art1982
1982
About the Item
Artist: David Hockney (English, 1937-)
Title: "Red Square and the Forbidden City"
Portfolio: China Diary
*Numbered, signed, and dated by Hockney in pencil lower right
Year: 1982
Medium: Original Lithograph on Somerset paper
Limited edition: 989/1,000, (there were also 100 artist's proofs)
Printer: Petersburg Studios, New York, NY
Publisher: Petersburg Studios, New York, NY
Reference: "David Hockney Prints 1954-1995" - MoCA Tokyo No. 254, page 145
Framing: Exquisitely framed, the sheet is floated within a custom black and gold-leaf moulding with fabric wrapped double mats and plexiglass
Framed size (irregular margins): 26.32" x 27.94"
Sheet size (irregular margins): 19.63" x 21.5"
Condition: One tiny faint spot of discoloration upper right in margin. Some cosmetic wear to framing. In otherwise excellent condition with strong colors
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - New York, NY; acquired from Bellette Hofmann Fine Art Inc., New York, NY retaining their original gallery label lower left on verso. Comes from Hockney's 1982, 10" x 7.5", limited edition book folio "China Diary", (MoCA Tokyo page 145), which was published by Thames & Hudson, London, UK with text by co-author Stephen Spender. (This accompanying book to the lithograph edition is not included). Printed in five colors: yellow, blue, red, and two greens from one stone and four aluminum plates using crayon and tusche.
Biography:
Known for his photo collages and paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools, David Hockney (English, 1937-) is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, David Hockney attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. There, he painted his famous swimming pool paintings. In the 1970s, Hockney began working in photography, creating photo collages he called joiners. He continues to create and exhibit art, and in 2011 he was voted the most influential British artist of the 20th century.
- Creator:David Hockney (1937, British)
- Creation Year:1982
- Dimensions:Height: 26.32 in (66.86 cm)Width: 27.94 in (70.97 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Saint Augustine, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU121213964312
David Hockney
The art of David Hockney is always engaging in its pleasant ambiguities: his prints, drawings and paintings are warm but somehow aloof; filled with light yet often dark and brooding in subject; simple, frank and mundane, but also ethereal and complex. The artist’s stature in the contemporary art world is such that, in a 2011 survey of one thousand British painters and sculptors, he was named the most influential British artist of all time.
Hockney grew up in Bradford, in the northern English county of Yorkshire, studying at the Bradford School of Art from 1953 to ’57, and at the Royal College of Art in London from 1959 to 1962. Though he was educated in art at a time when abstraction dominated the field, Hockney stuck resolutely to figurative painting and drawing.
Hockney's early paintings suggest a search for a style, veering from Expressionism to a grotesquerie suggestive of James Ensor. But Hockney found himself almost the moment he arrived in Los Angeles, in 1963. The move from the gray and rainy Britain to a world of bright sunshine and sparkling water brought Hockney a sense of freedom and an artistic epiphany. He would spend most of the next five years in L.A., painting luminous pictures, such as A Bigger Splash (1967), of things that made him happy: swimming pools, manicured lawns, palm trees, stucco buildings and luxuries like shower stalls. Hockney also painted people, almost always his friends. His California portraits such as Beverly Hills Housewife (1966) are considered to be his finest work. They are at once grandly scaled, intimate and poetic.
In the 1970s, Hockney moved back to Britain and spent much of his time on photography and printmaking. He returned to painting in the 1980s, and to subjects like still lifes, seascapes and portraits. Hockney has always been fascinated by the use of technology in art — he’s credited with inventing the technique of joining Polaroid photos in a collage to form a panoramic picture — and has been using the Brush app to paint on an iPad. Because he is prolific and works in a wide range of mediums, Hockney’s art is available at many price points. His consistently striking and provocative work should have a place in any comprehensive collection of contemporary art.
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